Saltire Literary Awards shortlists 2018

22 October 2018

The shortlists for the six Saltire literary awards were
officially announced at an event hosted at the West End branch of
Waterstones in Edinburgh on Monday 22 October 2018.

Widely regarded as Scotland's most prestigious book awards, the
Saltire Literary Awards are organised by the Saltire
Society, a non-political independent charity founded in 1936
which celebrates the Scottish imagination, and are supported by
Creative Scotland.

Congratulations to our members with titles on the lists:
Canongate (3), Edinburgh University Press (2)and Luath Press.
Edinburgh-based Birlinn also have 3 books on the shortlists. The
winners will be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 30 November
2018.

The shortlists in full are:

Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award

Elsewhere, Home - Leila Aboulela (Saqi
Books)

The Great Chain of Unbeing - Andrew Crumey (Dedalus
Limited)

The Sealwoman's Gift - Sally Magnusson (Two
Roads)

A Treachery of Spies - Manda Scott (Transworld
Publishers)

The Growing Season - Helen Sedgwick (Harvill
Secker)

Dead Men's Trousers - Irvine Welsh (Jonathan
Cape)

Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Award

Appointment in Arezzo - Alan Taylor (Polygon)

All That Remains: A Life in Death - Professor Sue
Black (Transworld Publishers)

Moscow Calling - Angus Roxburgh (Birlinn Ltd)

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa - Joseph Farrell
(MacLehose Press)

The Story of Looking - Mark Cousins (Canongate
Books)

Waiting for the Last Bus - Richard
Holloway (Canongate Books)

Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award

Who is Mary Sue? - Sophie Collins (Faber and
Faber)

Bantam - Jackie Kay (Picador)

So Glad I'm Me - Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books)

The Long Take - Robin Robertson (Picador)

Wristwatch - Jay Whittaker (Cinnamon Press)

Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year Award,
supported by the National Library of Scotland

Early Cinema in Scotland - John Caughie, Trevor
Griffiths and María A. Vélez-Serna (Edinburgh University
Press)

What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material
Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History - Tom
Mole (Princeton University Press)